“Get rid of my kids; get them back to New York,” the president told John Kelly, according to a new book.
President Donald Trump allegedly wanted daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner bounced out of the White House and sent back to New York because of the bad press they generated, according to a new book written by the journalist Vicky Ward.
“Get rid of my kids; get them back to New York,” the president told his new chief of staff, according to Ward. But Kelly told Trump it would be hard to dislodge the pair, who since the early days of the campaign have been some of the most influential members of the president’s inner circle. Former top economic advisor Gary Cohn, for example, went to Ivanka when he was considering resigning over Trump’s response to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. Despite the deadly violence, public anti-Semitism and racism on show from assembled neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, the president blamed “both sides” for the tragic outcome.
The pair also apparently tried to exert control over the State Department, and decide who could travel on funded trips. Citing a source within the department, Ward wrote that Ivanka submitted inappropriate requests to travel on Air Force planes, and that the couple would invite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on trips to secure access to aircraft—and sidestep former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s efforts to stop them.
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